Hair-pin.



PATENTEDDEG. 10, 1907.

D. 'W. MoNEIL.

HAIR PIN. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 10. 1907.

WITNESSES: t INVENTOR. I W W ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL w. McNEIL, or CINCINNATI, o'nro.

i HAIR-PIN.

i i Application filed Juli 10.

T cll wh om it may concern:

.Be it known that I, DANIEL W. M'oNnIL, a

citizen of the United States of America, and

' resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton,

State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-inHair-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

, My invention relates to that kind of hair-1 in Which is provided witha means of hold ing the short strands of a womans hair from blowingabout her face.

The obj ectof my invention is a hair-pin of .this kind whichis-providedwith a ready Figure is a front view of a-hair-pm embodymyinvention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view t enupon line w-m ofFig. 1. Fig. 3is a view similar to Fig. 1 of a modification. Fig. 4 is a'view takenupon line yy of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of another modifiQ cation. Fig. 6 1s asectional view taken. upon line zz of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 and Fig. 8

are respectively front and side elevations of a modification of thehair-pin made with one leg. Fig. 9 and Fig. 10 are views similar toFigs. 5 and 6 of anotlier modification. ss is section line for Fig. 10Referring to Figs. 1 and2: the part,A, is made similar to an ordinaryhair-pin. The. clip consists of a flat piece of spring metal with anenlarged central part, b, from which projects jaws, bf, 6 The clip issecured to the part, a, by having its central portion, 6, bent about thecurve,.a, so as to bring the jaws, h, 11*, together. The spring in themetal normally holds the jaws, b, b together.

. -In-use wisps of short hairs are placed between the jaws, b, N, byspreading the jaws apart or by drawing the wisps of hair in be-' tweensaid jaws, the legs of the hair-pin being inserted into the hair in theusual manner.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4 the clip, C','is made of aflat U-shaped piece Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1Q, 1907. 1907. Serial No. 378.148.

lugs, c project inward and are bent around the legs of the hair-pin, A,so that the le c, c, of the cli are held by-the spring of t e metal ofthe c i in contact with the legs-of the hair-pin. Tl! beheld-1n place bybeing inserted between t the le' c,- c and the legs of the hair-pin, A.-

In' t e modification shownin Figs. 5 and 6 the .clip consists of. a flatpiece of spring metal having an enlarged part, d-,.bent around theU-bsnd, a, of the hair in sothat theleg, d of the clip is held by t e.spr of the metal-- in'contact with one leg of the air-pin.

The modification shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is similar to that shown inFigs. 5 and 6, except that the hair pin, A, has but one le around the uper end of 'which the part, of-the clipis ent, leaving-the part, (1, incontact with the leg, A.

In the modifications shown in Figs.-58 the wisps of hair are heldbetween the leg, d, and the le of the hair-pin.

I In the mo ification shown in Figs. 9 and 10 the clip consists of afiat piece of spring metal in the form of an inverted U, the legs,

e wisps of short hair are to e, e, of which have at their outer ends,mwardly projecting lugs, 6 which are bent around the legs of thehairin, so that the free end of the clip is held y the spring of themetal in contact with the upper part of the legs of the hair-pin.

securing the clip by bending it at one of its ends around the wire andhaving it of a shape such that the spring in the metal only holds thereceiving jaw closed, permits of the hair pin being made of a minuteform which is nown as an invisible hair pin.

It is seen thatin use the operation of placing wispls ofhair between thejaws of the clip is one t at is very easil performed, and that there areno parts 0 the hair-pin in which hair may readily becomeentangled.

What I claim is:

The construction of the hair pin and the clip without the use of rivetsand by simply 1. A'hair-pin consisting of a wire aridaflat of itsends tothe wire y being bent.aronnd the same and leaving its opposite end freebut normally held by the spring of the metal bent at its center aboutthe curve and formin the clip against a contiguous part of the ingcontacting jaws between the prongs for hair-pin to form a jaw forreceiving wisps of receiving wisps of hair. hair. z DANIEL W. MCNE'LL. 52. A hair-pin consisting of a double f Witnesses:

' pronged wire, the prongs being connected at WALTER F. MURRAY, the endsby a U-curve and a flat metal clip 1 AGNES McCoRMAeK.

